Rolling Stone Cover: 'Mad Men's' Don Draper Exposed
Jon Hamm makes his first solo appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone in the next issue. Contributing Editor Josh Eells shadowed the actor on the set of the hit AMC show, at his favorite neighborhood dive bar and on a hike through his hip Los Feliz neighborhood. Hamm explains how drastically he differs from Don Draper, his pre-MAD MEN struggles in the entertainment business and his plans when the show goes off the air in 2014.

CW network revamp aims to draw wider audience
The network's median viewer age is nearly 42. That looks like trouble. The female-friendly, 7-year-old network targets the 18- to 34-year-old demographic. But CW's executives aren't running away from middle age. They are trying to attract a more diverse audience.

"I thought we had become too niche," said CW President Mark Pedowitz, who took the reins at the network in 2011. "And, the thing is, you want everyone to participate."

Its programming slate, in turn, ventured outside the juniors department. Executives beefed up on darker fare — with the superhero drama ARROW, the procedural show BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and the recently launch CULT — partly as an attempt to lure male audiences.

Karolina Wydra joins TRUE BLOOD
Wydra’s recurring character, Violet, is described as a strong, sexy, possibly dangerous vamp on par with the Eric Northmans and Bill Comptons of the world.

He said: "Of course I don’t sanction that. All I am trying to do is get the balance right. Pedophiles should be routed out, anyone who offends sexually should be dealt with properly in the way the law deals with that."

1980s: Steven Carrington of DYNASTY fame, the hot blond with perfect Ken-doll coif and jaw, moved out of the mansion when he told the Carrington clan that he would never be into Barbie. Well, at least not until season 7, when he would give into heavy sexual tension with Sammy Jo (swear to God that's a woman not a trucker), and consequently gets so confused by his sexuality that he goes out for a fateful horseback ride. (Wouldn't you go out for a fateful horseback ride when you were sexually confused?) Even though Steven was a gay character for like a bazillion seasons, he was still lured into bed by the wiles of a woman. Neutered…well, maybe hetero-d.

1990s: The year was 1998, and while straight girls all over the country were pulling a Joey and climbing into their boyfriend's bedroom windows, DAWSON'S CREEK was also making gay TV history with Jack McPhee. Who didn't cry when Jack was outted in English class? Who wasn't at the edge of the couch when Jack had his first chaste gay kiss with his internet crush? And neither Jack nor Ricky could have done it without the help of a hot lady friend. Teenagers around the country were hooked. Suddenly we knew: being gay was effing hard! But also effing fabulous.

EMMERDALE filming affected by freezing weather
The freezing weather conditions have left the EMMERDALE set in Esholt, Yorkshire looking like the middle of winter when it is meant to be May in soapland, due to filming six weeks in advance.

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Tuesday's episode of GH should take a place in the gay history of soaps! Bobbie saying that she wanted her son Lucas to "meet a nice young man, settle down and get married." Emma correcting TJs assumption that felix and Sabrina are a couple with "No, silly! Felix likes boys!" Epiphanny telling Patrick that Felix "bats for the other team." Realistic, funny and not preachy.